Pope Francis was admitted to the Gemelli hospital in Rome on Wednesday. According to hospital sources, he arrived by ambulance with "heart problems." According to Vatican sources, his audiences scheduled for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow have been canceled.
Before going to the hospital, the pontiff canceled an appointment to record a television interview, and Francis' staff and his security men would have been alerted to spend the night at the polyclinic.
A hospital admission was not planned, on the eve of Palm Sunday and the celebrations of Holy Week, the most important time of the year. The Holy See's first communique, issued this afternoon, spoke of "pre-scheduled checks."
The Pope had already been admitted to the Gemelli hospital in 2021, but then the Vatican communique immediately spoke of a "scheduled operation", the removal of part of the colon for diverticular stenosis: he was hospitalized for eleven days.
About twenty days ago, in statements to Swiss television, Francis, 86, had said he felt in good health, when asked how he was after ten years of pontificate: "I am old. I have less physical endurance, although the knee injury is healing well."
According to The Trust Project criteria
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